D.B. Cooper

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Jan. 17, 1979: Cowlitz County Sheriff's Detective Bob Nix displays an exit placard from a Boeing 727, found by a hunter the previous November near Toutle, Wash. The FBI confirmed the placard matched one missing from the plane hijacked by D.B. Cooper in November 1971. (The Associated Press/provided by seattlepi.com file)

Jan. 17, 1979: Cowlitz County Sheriff's Detective Bob Nix displays an exit placard from a Boeing 727, found by a hunter the previous November near Toutle, Wash. The FBI confirmed the placard matched one missing from the plane hijacked by D.B. Cooper in November 1971. (The Associated Press/provided by seattlepi.com file)